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adj. With lots of errors in it; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

v. To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

v. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

adj. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted.

adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct.

intransitive v. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

intransitive v. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.

transitive v. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

transitive v. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

transitive v. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty.

transitive v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.

transitive v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To injure; mar; spoil; destroy.

To vitiate physically; render unsound; taint or contaminate as with disease; decompose: as, to corrupt the blood.

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; cause the decomposition of (an organic body), as by a natural process, accompanied by a fetid smell; change from a good to a bad physical condition, in any way.

To vitiate or deprave, in a moral sense; change from good to bad; infect with evil; pervert; debase.

To pervert or vitiate the integrity of; entice from allegiance, or from a good to an evil course of conduct; influence by a bribe or other wrong motive.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; infect with imperfections or errors; falsify; pervert: as, to corrupt language; to corrupt a text.

Examples

Paul says, He that cometh to God must believe (Heb.xi. 6); and Christ says the same thing: Either make the tree good and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt (Matt.xii. 33), as much as to say, He who wishes to have good fruit will begin with the tree, and plant a good one; even so he who wishes to do good works must begin, not by working, but by believing, since it is this which makes the person good.

You know, one of the things you mention, Mark, is you talk about all the instances where these justices have been wrong in the past, not only wrong, morally wrong, at times morally bankrupt, and even, I think, the term corrupt could be used.

Tymoshenko's support for an examination of what she calls the corrupt activities of current government officials could provide added incentive to the authorities to remain in power using inappropriate means.

The Community watchdog group, Protect Our Parks, POP, that successfully sued to stop the secret and illegal deal to construct a soccer field in Lincoln Park for the primary use of the private Latin School, today condemned the Plan Commission decision approving a renewed version of that Latin School plan and vowed to file new litigation to protect the park and the community from what they describe as a corrupt misuse of the park.